About 360,000 military personnel have been deployed in the immediate vicinity of the Union State of Belarus and Russia. The number includes the armed forces of Eastern Europe countries, the Russian news agency TASS quoted Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying.
In his words, about 8,000 armored vehicles, 6,000 artillery systems and mortars, 650 aircraft and helicopters are also deployed near the borders of the Union State of Belarus and Russia.
Sergei Shoigu remarked...
The China National Forest Product Industry Corporation intends to step up cooperation with the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange (BUCE). The corporation plans not only to buy more Belarusian sawn timber at exchange auctions, but also to sell China-made goods through the BUCE import substitution platform, head of the purchasing department of the company Li Yingtian said during the meeting with the BUCE management, BelTA learned from the BUCE press service.
The initiative of the...
According to the preliminary data, Belarus' international reserve assets totaled the equivalent of $7,973.5 million as of 1 August 2023, BelTA learned from the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus.
The country's gold and foreign currency reserves went up by $182 million (or 2.3%) in July 2023 after shrinking by $80.6 million (1.02%) in June 2023.
The central bank said: “Since August 2022 information about the volume of the international reserve assets has been published on...
